The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-22
NEWS OF THE STATE,
Gathered from The Mails, the
Press and the Wire.
"oUEER" DOLLARS IN HABERSHAM


Stewart county votes on prohibition on the
24th, and Hancock county votes On the 18th,
About $4,000 was made by dealing in fu-
tures in Miuedgcyille in the last few days.
Alfred Harrington is now sole editor and
proprietor Of the "swainsboro Pine Forest"
The population Of Elberton has about dou-
hled IN Inc last ten years, and it is still gradually
Increasing.
The three warehouses in Hawkinsvile had
Teceiyed. up to Tuesday night last H,10i bales OF
Mr.. .Wney Smith. of Washington county,
will make about l75 gallons Of syrup from hall
acre Of land.
S. w. Bloodworth, Of Griffin, has grape
vine which has grown three crops OF gIapcs this
year, The vine was planted in 1852
The Wilkes gold mine in the northern part
oil Meriwether county was feopencd this week, aud
mining the precious metal willnow 90 on in earnest
The South Georgia conference win convene
IN sandersyille on Wednesday, the 1ilh Of Deem
Der Bishop II. \. McTyiere wll preside
The cotton crop Of Wilkes county byings in
nearly million dollars This gives an average Of
about sixty dollars TO every man, woman and child,
white ana black in the country
Master oscar Dabney, OF Conyers, young
man about II years Old, killed chicken hawk last
Monday IN tho upper part Of town that measured 4
feet aud inches rom tip to tip fits wing.
Mr.. @. w Brack, who farms near Condor,
has already gnucd nine bales Of cotton, averaging
more than ~ pounds pen bale, and has half q bale
yet unpcked an being made on ten acres OF land,
nsing 200 pounds Of guanO 10 the acre.
While W. G. Forrest, D. p. Murray and
Captain Murray were working HE road In HE 18th
district, near B0isilrd, their dogs iumpcd n wild
cat ANA after chase OF halt an hour freed it, when
st was shot IT weighed twenty five pounds.
At Albany, Buford Walters climbed up to
the cone oil Mr. iugo Rpoinsop'8 dwelling and
captured Il buz4ard as no dregmily sat summing his
raven flumase. He carreI II 70 H. A. Hall w.ire-
house and procured Il bell, fastened 1t around its
neck end aat II nee
Mr. Warren Nash, land agent for Mr. w.
u. MTAItlIlf, OF DODGE county. WIile driving
Though the country near C1hbNIllc was fred upon
twice BY some unseen and Unknown party. for
tunate.y he esCai eli unhurt, though his horse re-
CeiYeI he contents OF one bafrI Of Tie gun. There
IS no clue as 70 who did the shooting.
Doctor William Farrell died at his home in
BIO was assistant physician At the lunatic asylum.
After leaving the asylum lac located IN Rome, where
yenrs a o ! c red ga from the practice Of medicine
and moPel to bis farm in Whitfield.
Captain Grant D. Heard. Of Covinpton, has
the remains OF the old battle flag of the SD Georgia
regiment ~ LIS possession; IL IS an tattofed ana
torn" and has twenty-five bullet holes in it; but II
sin has the words "53d Ca Regiment plainly
printed upon it, ana IS relic OF the war which IS
we'll worth preserving. Captain Heard commanded
the color company, ana was the senior captain In
the regiment
Mr. D. u. Wells has some turnips, two Of
them very large, both Of which weighed nine and
onehn pounds. One WIS of the Globe variety
and weighed four and Onc-hnlf pounds, aud the
other was the Flat Dutch variety and measured
tweny-our inches in circumference. They were
a. fine urnps as we have ever seen in this county
Mr. Pope Jones is one of Coweta's best and
most enterpriSing farmers. He raises everything
that our soil and climate will produce, and It is a
decidedly of year when be makes failure Of any
crop. He has been experimenting recently with
sugar cane, and the result this year has been most
gratifying IN every respect. On one acre of ground
he has made three hundred and twenty gallons of
fine syrup besides seed for another years planting
Tho DeKalb Chronicle claims John q.
Miller OF stone Mountain as the boss farmer of pc
Kalb, and the claim seems TO he based on solid
tnCtS. lie mus lust received from fhtla
delphia Of 80 for the largest water melon grown in
the United States But he does not rely on water
N Ions alone. He has made thIs year corn enough
10 do him for two years aud twenty one bales Of
cotton with two horses
In Enterprise, colored woman filed syrup
boiler with water 70 scald hog. When the water
reached very nearly tho boiling point, she left her
two small cnildron in the yard and vent 10 u house
near By. ono OF the chldren--a girl of or 10
years Of age-vclinbed al tho ick work OF
the furnace and sat down with her back to the boil
err By some means she lost her balance and fal
backward into the boiling water. She strupg
and finally got out Her heHrtrending cries attrnc
ted attention. and she was iaund In d most pital,le
condition. Her suieiiugs were intense 6ul Mt
might death put an end TO her pain.
DIR. G. r. Gibbs, of Gainesville, had one
day last week, counterfeit silver dollar which
was almost perfect in its appearance the only naw
being slight defect IN the milling IL was made
81 pewter OF line other base metel, neatly guly0n-
three.tenths Of coming W TO proper weight II
was dated 1888 Or. Gibbs says he has no idea when
or whore he got It, and did not know it was eoun'
teri1ii until he went 20 express some money when
the agent detected and called his attention 10 IT,
General Longstreet appears TO be in better
health than az any time Tor The past en- years
Barring The ,rtal paralysis of his shoulder caused
by tle serious womld he received in the war, be is
as hearty ana vigorous as many men many
years Younger He attributes this improvement Of
bis health 70 the virtues OF mineral spring he has
discovered ar his residence He saws That for
invariably few 20 his toes, and he was Threatened
With govt since lie commenced using this water
these ymploms have d1appearod aud he can now